Improving Military Relationships

December 4, 2008

By Flinn Foundation

[Source: Rick Nauert, Ph.D, PsychCentral] – A positive employer-employee relationship is necessary to retain employees and deliver a quality product. Consider the impact when the employer is the United States military. Integral to a successful work relationship is a balance between the work environment and the home. As a result, the military provides its members with policies to help balance their work and family commitments.

But a researcher at Kansas State University has found that simply providing programs might not be enough to maintain a supreme equilibrium.

Satoris Culbertson, assistant professor of psychology at K-State, and colleagues have been studying how soldiers